In an English- Chinese dictionary, roughneck means rude, or a rude fellow, or a noisy and rude fellow. But does it matter for trademark registration? A U.S. firm specialized in making safety gloves attempted to register ROUGHNECK and was denied for its ne

In November 2016, Shanghai Minhang District Market Supervision Office received a complaint from the Israel- based Bermad Company, the trademark owner of 伯 尔 梅 特BERMAD, accusing Shanghai Bermad Control Valve Company of manufacturing and selling valve produ

Wenger S.A.'s filed an application for registration of SWISSGEAR trademark registration in China, in September 2007, to be used on Class 25 products including clothes and wallet, then was rejected successively by the Trademark Office (TMO) and Trademark R

Beijing High People's Court recently made a final judgment on a trademark dispute case between Italian auto maker Maserati and Dengta (Liaoning)- based Anlite Leather Clothing Factory, ruling that the individual surnamed Liu, manager of Anlite Factory, ha

Many shoppers are familiar with the France-based shop Auchan. What is little known is that this international retail giant has been entangled in a trademark dispute with a local trademark agency over the trademark 欧尚 (Note: official Chinese translation of

The British CNH Industrial N.V.(hereinafter referred to as CNH Industrial), which registered in Netherlands, started its recourse upon No.16448139 trademark NEW HOLLAND AGRICULTURE and figure in China. Recently, Beijing High People's Court made a final ju

Renowned French luxury brand, Yves Saint Laurent (YSL) gained a happy ending of a 6-year trademark dispute over No. 7450422 YSL trademark (trademark in dispute) with the legal representative of Hangzhou Binlu Clothing and Leather Goods Company. Beijing Hi

The applicant filed cancellation request based on the ground of non-use in a consecutive period of three years against the marks cited in the Decision of Refusal on the request of designating their international registration to China. Once the cited mark

The applicant states to the Trademark Review and Adjudication Board that investigation shows the cited mark has not been used for nearly 3 years and the applicant will request to cancel the cited trademark once it has not been used for 3 full consecutive

A Norwegian company of adhesives designated their international registration DYNEA (see Figure 1) to China in 2015. In 2016, they received a notification from WIPO notifying that the Chinese Trademark Office (herein after refer to the Office) rejected the